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Fighting Online Abuse Isn’t About Trolls, It’s About Community
If you’ve spent much time online—playing games, talking on social media, using message boards—chances are you’ve gotten some abuse. Someone’s called you a fag, or a dumb bitch, or suggested they might find out where you live and skullfuck you to death. When that happens, we generally take it as a cost of doing business…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 15, 2014 -
The Beauty Of Weird Military Infographics
If you want to build something for the U.S. military, you’re probably going to have to make a diagram or a chart to demonstrate how it’ll work. Might as well bust out Illustrator and paste together the weirdest diagram possible. In an excellent feature over at Medium, writer Paul Ford has confessed to his minor…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 14, 2014 -
The Walking Dead Game’s Latest Chapter: Weak Story, Great Jacket
When I finished episode three of the second season of The Walking Dead game, I thought, “Well, that sure was an episode of The Walking Dead.” Mild zombie- and jacket-related spoilers follow. I think that, like our young protagonist Clementine, I’ve gotten too hardened, too young. I’ve seen so many people die, witnessed so many…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 14, 2014 -
A Strategy Game Where You Grow Your Own Godzilla
Anyone who’s played Rampage has probably enjoyed assuming the role of the Kaiju, destroying cities and leveling armies in an unstoppable quest to… eat… things… or whatever. But what if Rampage could be a bit more strategic? Enter Kaiju a Gogo, an in-development game from Kerberos Productions. The game will let you play one of…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 13, 2014 -
What Games Are You Playing This May?
It’s May! The sun is shining, the days are longer than ever, and that means it’s time to play some video games. I’ve been enjoying asking what games you all are playing each month, so I wanted to do the same thing for May. Rather than list all the games I’m playing (though the top…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 12, 2014 -
Borderlands 2 On Vita Is The Worst Version Of A Good Game
Remember Borderlands 2? It came out a couple years ago, everyone played it a lot and generally really liked it? Of course you do. Well, it’s back. The 2012 first-person shooter, which was hefty on its own and grew even heftier thanks to a whole bunch of post-release downloadable expansions, has come to the PlayStation…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 12, 2014 -
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Sonic the Hedgehog and his friends, racing through super high-res backdrops! These beautiful screenshots come to us from Duncan Harris at Dead End Thrills, who’s been using a debug build of Sonic & Allstars Racing Transformed provided by developer Sumo Interactive to grab some beautiful high-res images. Enjoy:…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 9, 2014 -
If you’re going to perform Zelda music, you might as well do so while standing in an epic desert. Here’s the latest from frequent video-game violin maestro Taylor Davis, who this time lends her talents to a rendition of “Bolero of Fire” from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Listen to the original here:
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 8, 2014 -
Sunset Overdrive Looks Fantastic In Action
I rarely get all that hyped while reading game previews, but Phil Owen’s recent preview of Insomniac’s open-world Xbox One action game Sunset Overdrive was an exception. Now we can watch it in action, and it does indeed look like a hell of a lot of fun. Basically, some sorta mixture of Dead Rising, Infamous…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 8, 2014 -
Reviews
The New Vita Is An Improvement, Mostly
There’s a new PlayStation Vita handheld out today. It’s called the Vita Slim, and while for the most part it’s similar to the first model, it does improve on a number of small things. Though there is the issue of that new screen… The Vita is, generally speaking, a good portable gaming device. For more…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 6, 2014 -
Machines Can Now Read The Internet, Make Our Arguments For Us
Today on The Singularity Watch: A computer program that can scan the Internet for multiple arguments on a complicated topic, distill the various sides of the debate, and argue both sides against one another. In this video shared by the Milken Institute, we see a demo of IBM’s Watson supercomputer. In addition to being really…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 5, 2014 -
Do you still play The Last of Us multiplayer? I’m curious how many of you still sneak and creep on each other, given how many good multiplayer games have come out since last year. This trailer shows what’s new in this week’s DLC—new maps, new abilities, and new difficulty for the singleplayer campaign.
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 5, 2014 -
Looks Like No One Lives Forever Is Finally Getting A Re-Release
And lo, the clouds parted, and the sun shone down, and a game studio known for re-releasing classic PC games filed for a trademark on one of the great lost video game series of our age. As spotted by Siliconera, an outfit called Night Dive Studios has filed trademark applications for No One Lives Forever,…
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 1, 2014 -
Sir, your game is ready today. The highly enjoyable first-person survival game Sir, You Are Being Hunted is officially out of early access andavailable on Steam today. It’s worth checking out – for more, watch our own Leo Wichtowski put the game through its paces.
By Kirk Hamilton Published May 1, 2014 -
Sony Announces A Dozen More Indie Games For PS4
The PlayStation 4 already has no shortage of good indie games, and soon it’ll be getting even more. Today at an indie-focused press event outside of San Francisco, Sony revealed a bunch of new indie games that’ll be coming to PS4 and other PlayStation systems. The current list: Axiom Verge will be coming to PS4…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 30, 2014 -
ReviewsChild of Light: The Kotaku Review
What can men do against such reckless beauty, such wanton loveliness? How can a game so obviously gorgeous, so well-constructed, still tilt uneasily forward and stumble? And if a game reaches so hungrily for greatness that it trips over itself, is it enough that it reached at all? Child of Light, out this week for…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 30, 2014
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